As I research the Internet and keep abreast of world news (especially the Mideast) I see the scriptures being quickly full filed and nearing the stages of serious world problems. Jesus alerted us to some of the problems in Matthew 24th chapter.
I have also spent much time studying Islam and their prophetic teaching concerning the coming of the 12th Iman (who is suppose to emerge from a well?)and Jesus return at the same time to Syria in order to destroy the anti-Christ and the Jewish nation.
The following article by Joel Rosenberg who has spent the last several years working in the mid east, in conference with America's government officials as well as written several very exciting and knowledgeable prophetic books has just up dated his conclusion to Ahmadinejads visit to the United Nations.
Although the Liberal media accuses the Church at attempting to usher in the apocalyptic (and there may be some mistakenly doing so) end times, it is really the religion Islam who is promoting the Islamic sermon. The liberal media or the government hardly touches the subject if not to avoid it altogether concerning Ahmadinejad's beliefs. Christians can do nothing to hasten the day simply because we know that Christ will return when the Father says it is time. However there are signs we can look for and many of them are very evident and emerging on the distant horizon. Matthew 24th chapter.
Jesus warned his followers that there would be those that would believe that they are doing God a service by killing those that Love him. St John 16:1-3 and 1timothy 4:1-2. There is a self righteous attitude that we all have and can only be overcome simply by drawing closer to Christ and planting his word deep into our hearts. That was his reason for the sermon on the mount concerning important attributes of those who take up their cross and follow him.
I felt this is an article worth reading to remind us that God still is in control and the world is slipping out of control. War is inevitable as technology, government arrogance and hatred continues to try once again to rebuild Babylon.
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Joel Rosenberg's article:
Washington, D.C., September 27, 2007) -- How close is war in the Middle East? It's hard to say for certain, but Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is certainly ratcheting up the rhetoric.
In the summer of 2005, the newly-elected Ahmadinejad told followers the end of the world was just two or three years away, and that the way to hasten the coming of the Islamic Messiah known as the Mahdi or the Twelfth Imam was to annihilate Israel and the United States. Since then, his anti-American and anti-Israeli rhetoric has intensified dramatically. Now, two years into his cryptic but apocalyptic countdown, Ahmadinejad is telling the Muslim world that the return of the Mahdi is "imminent."
In an address to the "International Seminar on the Doctrine of Mahdism" in Tehran last month (August 25-26), Ahmadinejad warned that the West's day is almost finished and the preparations for the Hidden Imam "will soon be complete." In a speech translated from Farsi by MEMRI.org, Ahmadinejad said: "The current situation in the world has led the nations to reject in disgust the rule of the oppressors. Now is the time to invite people to accept the rule of the righteous, and [especially that] of the most righteous of [rulers] -- the Hidden Imam....The oppressors and tyrants are responsible for all the difficulties and problems currently faced by the nations, and the only way to establish justice is through popular uprising and determined resistance in the face of these oppressors....[the day] of these aggressors...who are oppressing and controlling the nations, is now coming to an end....
The time of the righteous rulers will come, and the most righteous of rulers, [i.e. the Hidden Imam], will form a government and thereby instate the monotheism of Abraham [throughout the world]. That day is not far away....Our enemies naturally feel threatened by the call to [believe in] the Mahdi, for they do not want people to think about justice. But our reply to them is that the era of the aggressive [powers] has come to an end. We believe that it is time for the righteous to rule."
A few days later, during a speech he delivered on August 28, Ahmadinejad went a step further, saying the Mahdi's return is "imminent."
"The current problems faced by the world result from [the rule] of unworthy rulers. The ultimate solution is to replace these unworthy regimes and rulers, and to establish the rule of the Hidden Imam....Those who are not versed in [the doctrine of Mahdism] believe that the return [of the Hidden Imam] will occur only in a very long time, but, according to the divine promise, [his return] is imminent."
Perhaps this is why Ahmadinejad opened rather than closed his speeches at Columbia University and at the United Nations this week with a prayer for Allah to hasten the Mahdi's arrival, because he is more convinced than ever that this apocalyptic moment is close at hand.
Political leaders in the U.S., Europe and the Middle East who believe we should negotiate with Iran are missing the big picture. Ahmadinejad is not operating by the norms of conventional, civilized behavior. He is actively trying to bring about the end of the world. He believes it is his mission, his divine calling. We should not expect any amount of diplomatic logic to dissuade or distract him.
The sad but sobering conclusion we must draw is that war is coming to the Middle East. Either the U.S. or Israel will soon launch an attack to stop Iran from becoming a nuclear-armed nightmare, or Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, Hamas and al-Qaeda will launch a cataclysmic war against the Jewish State, and possibly against U.S. targets and/or interests. When? No one knows for sure, but millions of innocent Israelis, Palestinians, Lebanese, Syrians and Jordanians are likely to be caught in the crossfire either way.
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